by admin | Sep 30, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Headlines last week trumpeted the fining by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of U.S. Bancorp 9 million dollars. U.S. Bancorp was also ordered to return 48 million dollars to customers for illegal billing practices regarding its identity theft products. The...
by admin | Sep 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last week, Florida became the latest state to enact a law to help combat identity theft of children’s identities. The new law has the clever acronym of KIDS, which stands for the Keeping ID Safe act. Under this law, parents of minors are able to open a file...
by admin | Sep 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Everyone uses email which is why emails from identity thieves posing as your email provider are a constant threat. Below are copies of emails that I recently received from identity thieves. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS. These phony emails follow a familiar...
by admin | Sep 26, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In somewhat of a repeat of the story of the “Heartbleed” bug where a vulnerability that had existed for two years before researchers discovered it and patched it, a new online security problem has just been discovered. It is a bug that is called...
by admin | Sep 26, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
For a long time I have told you that you are only as safe from identity theft as the places with the weakest security that have your information. It is for this reason that I urge you to limit the places that do have your personal information, such as your Social...
